On May 17th, the United States Department of State sent out a policy directive to American universities sponsoring Confucius Institutes. It states that Chinese academics teaching grade-school levels at institutions without the proper accreditation are violating the terms of their visas and must leave the country at the end of the current term. more ›

In the Saturday edition of The Washington Post, Andrew Higgens and Maureen Fan waxed poetic about the two-facedness of China's Communist leaders denouncing Western values while simultaneously enrolling their children and grandchildren into Western universities. more ›

A high school in Yueqing, Zhejiang province has issued new rules banning a bunch of interactions between boys and girls including walking together to prevent boy-girl relationships from happening in the school. more ›

Linda Yeung of the South China Morning Post reports on a formerly cash-strapped private college in Shanghai that has reinvented itself to become the first liberal arts college in mainland China, with the goal of nurturing graduates who can think out of the box. Here's what she tells us about the "Yale of Shanghai": more ›

Starting in 2013, New York University in Shanghai (NYU Shanghai) will begin enrolling students on its Lujiazui campus. According to Xinhua, it will be the first university jointly operated between China and the United States. more ›

Al Jazeera's Rob McBride finds out what makes students in Hong Kong consistently top international charts for arithmetic, reading and science. more ›

Dow Jones Newswires reporter Michelle Korn on the growing tide of Chinese students applying for enrollment at American graduate schools. more ›

Two 12-year-old girls in Zhangzhou, Fujian province have committed suicide, one of whom allegedly died for time-travel, local media reports. Xiaohua, one of the two girls, apparently was motivated to take her own life after being distraught over losing a remote control for the rolling door of her house, and planned her suicide on March 1st. more ›

Candidates for admission will no longer need to enter preparatory programs before entering the university, though International English Language Testing System (IELTS) scores of 6.5 will still be required to demonstrate English proficiency. more ›

Investigators from the Chinese Embassy in the United States have been dispatched to Dickinson State University in North Dakota, which has recently gained a reputation for being a diploma mill for foreign (mostly Chinese) students. Dramatic details of the case according to the Shanghai Daily: more ›

Michael Sainsbury, China correspondent of The Australian, visits Shanghai's Gezhi High School, one of the top local high schools to find out why this city is consistently producing the world's top PISA scores. Here's what he found: more ›

A 38-year-old single woman has created a firestorm of controversy on the internet after setting up a "virginity website" to get young people to abstain from sex before marriage. Saladin Xu of Shanghai Daily writes: more ›

Al-Jazeera's Melissa Chan gives us a fascinating glimpse of student life at a Chinese Communist Party school. more ›

Last week, we told you about the visa and financial problems that Shanghai Rego International School was reportedly experiencing. Things are just about to get worse for them because district authorities have refused to continue leasing land to it. This means the school will have to move elsewhere within the city when its current lease is up January 2013. more ›

"When we were young, the textbooks told us that China fed 22% of the world's population with just 7% of the world's arable land, but here's what they didn't tell us -- that this 22% of the world's population feeds 60% of the world's public servants; that this 22% of the world's population has only been given 3% of the world's education budget; that this 22% of the world's population has 97% of its wealth concentrated in the hands of the 1%; that this 22% of the world's population has been consuming 90% of the world's toxic food, paying the world's highest taxes and doing the most dirty and tiring work." more ›

Nicholas English of City Weekend posed as a parent and walked straight into a parent-teacher meeting Wednesday night at Shanghai Rego International School’s Minhang campus. Teachers at the school, he found, were not here on proper work visas, and the school was having trouble paying them on time: more ›

The Shanghai police has sent out a reminder of its warning to foreigners without work visas not to look for employment in the city. If found out, you'll be fined and deported, they said. more ›

An expensive private kindergarten in Nanjing has been accused of hiring unqualified teachers from the Philippines who are allegedly mistreating kids and asking parents for more cash: more ›

Foreign universities may all be flocking to China but Chinese universities are also taking the first tentative steps overseas. Shanghai Jiaotong University is setting up a new research centre with the National University of Singapore to work on Energy and Environmental Sustainability Solutions for Megacities. more ›

Duke University's Academic Council has voted 44-8 to approve a master's of management studies degree to be offered by the university's Fuqua School of Business in Kunshan, a city just a stone's throw away from Shanghai. The university described the program thus in a statement on its website: more ›

A kindergarten school bus collided with a truck in Puyang, Henan province this afternoon. All 10 children and 2 adults were saved and only suffered from slight injuries. more ›

A high school student in Shangrao, Jiangxi province, recently jumped off the building to show a girl his love after he was rejected by her. more ›

China has donated school buses to Macedonia, and these buses were handed over to the south-eastern European country yesterday. more ›

A senior student in Dongguan University of Techonology has given himself up to the police for killing a sophomore after a failed attempt to rape her. The would-be rapist surnamed Ao followed Liang Rongcai (梁荣彩), the victim, to the washroom and attempted to rape her. Encountered with Liang's resistence, Ao killed her and subsequently escaped. more ›

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a primary school in Anze County, Shanxi Province, killing himself and wounding another 6. Local authorities say that at around 1530 on November 24, Feng Aihong (冯爱红), the suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a local primary school, killing himself on the spot. One teacher and five students who were having sports class were also wounded. However, they suffered only facial burns and there is no danger to their lives. more ›

We told you yesterday about a school bus tragedy in Zhengning (正宁) County of Qingyang (庆阳) City in Western China's Gansu province in which a minibus overcrowded with preschoolers crashed with a truck, killing 20 and injuring dozens. Public anger is now rising over the incident, which today topped the list of trending topics on Sina Weibo, China's most popular microblogging platform. more ›

UC Berkeley's College of Engineering has announced a new partnership with the Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park to develop what it describes as a "a platform for expanding industrial and academic research collaborations in Asia and fostering global learning opportunities for Berkeley students." more ›

China Hush points us to a man named Xiao Baiyou (萧百佑) who has recently been making waves across China as a "Wolf Father" who imposes strict restrictions on his children and will beat them if they fail to meet his standards. Although controversial and violent, his parenting method appears to be very successful -- at least outwardly. Three of his four children have been admitted into Peking University, arguably China's most prestigious university. Many parents have sent their own children to Xiao so that he could teach them during the winter and summer vacations. more ›